Type Locality: Brazil, South America
Distribution: Brazil, South America
"Plants monoecious, moderately mucilaginous, 3-6 cm high, 450 mm in diameter; whorls barrel-shaped or compressed, contiguous; fascicles 2-4, primary fascicles di- or trichotomously branched, 6-10 cell-storeys, proximal cells cylindrical, 6-12 mm in diameter, 40-80 mm long, distal cells obovoidal or spherical, 8-13 mm in diameter, 14-20 mm long, terminal hairs numerous and long; cortical filaments well-developed; secondary fascicles numerous, covering internodes; spermatangia spherical or obovoidal, terminal on fascicles, 6-7 mm in diameter; carpogonium-bearing branches arising from periaxial cells, short, 15-30 mm long, consisting of 3-6 disc- or barrel-shaped cells; carpogonium 30-45 mm long, trichogyne club-shaped or ovoid, indistinctly stalked; upper involucral filaments in rosette, lower involucral filaments numerous, short; carposporophytes one-celled zygotes; filaments of chanstransia phase developing directly from one-celled zygotes.”
Kumano, S. 2002. Freshwater red algae of the world. Biopress Ltd. 375pp.
